art history

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/31/2020
  

  Christo, Famous For His Monumental Works Of Art, Dies At 84

  Christo's works played off of their environment in cities around the world.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  5/11/2020
  

  “Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

  by Paris A. Spies-Gans

  Historian Paris A. Spies-Gans discusses the historical references and significance of the critically acclaimed French film.

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• SOURCE: ArtNews
  5/10/2020
  

  Art Historians are Obsessed with Recovering Lost Names. But are they Asking the Wrong Questions?

  In her exhibition “The Unknown Artist," curator Lucy Cotter probes the very values of attribution.

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  5/4/2020
  

  Cache Of Russian Avant-Garde Works Surfaces In Regional Museum's Basement

  A leading Russian avant-garde expert says he has identified dozens of works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova languishing in an obscure history museum in the Kirov region.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  4/28/2020
  

  ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Gets Thorough Inspection but Mystery Still Surrounds Subject

  While art historians have been able to employ state-of-the-art imaging techniques to establish a more precise analysis of the artwork — often referred to as the "Dutch ‘Mona Lisa’” — its subject remains a mystery.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  4/9/2020
  

  What The Depression-Era Works Progress Administration Can Teach Us About The Arts During A Crisis

  During the Great Depression, art became a part of people's everyday lives, notes art historian Jody Patterson.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  4/28/2020
  

  Alan Shestack, Influential Museum Director And Art History Scholar, Dies At 81

  Shestack's decades-long career included top leadership roles at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Art.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/2020
  

  This is how Bad Things are for Museums: They Now Have a Green Light to Sell Off Their Art

  The Association of Art Museum Directors has relaxed its guidelines against selling works of art for operating funds. Now, the notion of selling off a Claude Monet or two to plug a budgetary hole—or to fend off a total financial meltdown—is suddenly something to contemplate.

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• SOURCE: Observer
  4/5/2020
  

  An Art History Professor’s Tips for Taking Your Kids on a World Tour—From Home

  Many of the world's greatest landmarks and artworks are just a click away.

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• SOURCE: Art News
  4/2/2020
  

  David C. Driskell, Tireless Advocate for Black Art History, Is Dead at 88

  Driskell's work, including the famous exhibition "Two Centuries of Black American Art," illustrated the importance of black artists in American art history.

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• SOURCE: Art News
  3/25/2020
  

  5 Essential Works by Maurice Berger, Late Art Historian Who Made Race a Central Concern

  A tireless advocate for a more diverse museum world, Berger, who died at 63 of coronavirus-related causes on Monday 3/23, is considered one of the best thinkers on race, in particular as it relates to photography.

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• SOURCE: ArtForum
  3/24/2020
  

  Maurice Berger (1957–2020)

  Critic, curator, and cultural historian Maurice Berger, whose work examined the role of race in visual culture, has died of complications related to the novel coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  3/6/2020
  

  Is Art History Becoming Too Woke?

  by Bendor Grosvenor

  After Yale made the decision to pull its course "Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Present," historian Bendor Grosvenor takes a look at the influence of political correctness on art history. 

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• 2/11/20
  

  How Somalis Use Theatre to Rebuild Culturally

  by Farah M. Omer

  Modern Somali theatre rose to prominence in the 1960s, the period following the independence and the subsequent unification of Somaliland and Somalia. By the 1970s, there were multiple shows a night in any given city and the average Somali adult was considered a regular theatre goer regardless of socioeconomic status.

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  1/30/20
  

  The surprising history of “pregnancy portraits”

  For centuries British artists edited baby bumps out of their work. Why?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/23/20
  

  This Art Was Looted 123 Years Ago. Will It Ever Be Returned?

  The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures, were looted in 1897. After a chance encounter, two men made it their mission to return them.

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• 1/14/20
  

  Painter of Disquiet: Félix Vallotton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art'

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  Vallotton’s work unquestionably merits the renewed attention — his paintings possess a mysterious quality, narrative appeal, and attention to detail, as well as invoke a delicious sense of irony and wit.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/9/19
  

  An Art History Mystery with No Shortage of Sleuths

  Is a bronze statue discovered in France a 16th century Renaissance masterpiece or a (much less valuable) 17th century copy? Readers shared their theories, opinions and expertise.  

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  10/15/19
  

  Modern art historian, US museum director and clergyman EA Carmean, Jr has died, age 74

  He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  September 10, 2019
  

  When This German Artist Tried to Use His Work to Warn About Hitler, the World Ignored Him. It's Time to Listen

  by Mary M. Lane

  German painter George Grosz predicted the rise of the Nazi Regime through his art. Why did no one pay attention?